What I was saying is: I have been for Cruz all along, a proven conservative, Trump a big question mark, but were Trump to win the Repub nomination I would vote for him. Not any more, not if comes out for a third party. If he does proves to me he is a self serving fraud. He doesn’t care if he splits the vote and puts the rats in there.
Whether they shut him out of the debates is no reason to go third party, in my view. The way the polls are trending, he would win the Repub nomination anyway. No need to go third party.
What if Trump goes 3rd party, and Cruz is his VP candidate? Does that still make Trump a “self serving fraud”? It is clear that the two have a deep mutual respect for each other, so that scenario is not implausible. Especially since both are smart enough to know that a 3rd party candidacy doesn’t “split the votes”, even more so if the other 2 are different manifestations of the same cartel. A 3rd party candidacy, as evidenced by Perot, probably wins, so your statement — “He doesn’t care if he splits the vote and puts the rats in there” — has no relevance, since that wouldn’t be the plan.